“Oh he must have been harboring this woman and the woman’s niece” I thought. Nope!

No such thing as a true 90 degree corner on most drywalled walls due to mudding

This was an excellent indie zombie movie. Shot for $6k. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat...

The 15th time I saw this in my feed I finally clocked that he's saying "toilet seat" rather than "toilet tank" or "the back of the toilet" which is not a subtle distinction.

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.” Sounds accurate to me.

Me starring in Quantum Leap: You’re *sure* Ziggy doesn’t want me to help unionize all the workers in this town?

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

And yet it moves

See my instinct would be to get my mouth as close to the mic as possible and whisper “Hosh Jawley”

New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

Certainly don’t think OP is phishing, but which high school you went to was a common backup security question for a while and famous alumni are public info.

Every worker deserves a union. Cool to see a big national union like CWA support sex worker organizing.

This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!

True Median Voter Theory

Some personal news

Not making someone listen to right wing podcasts for monitoring purposes is peak ethical use of AI

Incredible.

Worth some followup reporting to see if they’re under political pressure including from clients.

Metascience FTW

Toddler started eating ravioli but when he asks for it only says the last two syllables. Hard not to repeat that one back to him.

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

I have squatted the reps that were for much later in the lifting program after more cycles Forgive me they were DOMS-inducing so sore and hurty

Even assuming massive improvements, this is predicated on LLM outputs becoming socially acceptable replacements for human decision-making and / or hidden away from end users. And at this level of disruption it’s the same kind of socialism vs. barbarism ratchet we’ve had since the post-war era.

Roberts and Hobbes got at this with their reactionary centrism podcast, but a sterling example of a media outlet reenforcing right wing stereotypes about Democrats while decrying Democrats’ inability to fend off right wing stereotypes.

We need something like Funders for Funding Reform because they sure as hell don't listen to operatives

I would simply send a bunch of stand up comedians to heckle the president.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

This was Mike Johnson's third failed rule vote of the 119th Congress, bringing him closer to tying the modern era record for rule failure in the House. Which is currently held by... Mike Johnson, from the 118th Congress

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

Agree with a lot here especially how much the foundation merry-go-round and overly cautious legal advice hamstring national orgs.

tricky writing a scale for this because "terrible" is technically the same answer as "outstanding"

so i talked to one of the bushes at the super bowl www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

Humbly resetting my lifts after being sick for a bit and missing several workouts. Always feels great to start fresh even though numbers go down.

Love to see it! Often forgotten but the American union movement did a ton of organizing around free speech, both to advance collective organizing and to oppose war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_sp...

I almost exclusively use Google Maps for navigation. Is there a way to get an alert / pint if I'm going over the speed limit? Or do other apps do that?

Installed some Rhino shelves today. I can see why this is a common handyman task. Very helpful to have long levels, a laser level, 2 drills and a miter saw, among other things that are maybe one step beyond DIY for many homeowners. Interesting system. Installed 7 feet up for vehicle clearance.

this excellent thread is imo the type of thing everyone whose name is in the files should be doing

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Reflecting on this, I think everyone should have the experience of getting documented proof that yes, in fact your enemies are conspiring against you.

Beautiful

the bushes were people 😂

One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

This is kind of an aside / relevant to Bad Bunny's Americas shout out... but the seven continent model we're taught in the US isn't universal. Some countries teach a six or even five continent model. The six-continent model (which unites North and South America) is common in Latin America

The expansive definition of "America" with the U.S. flag among many other nations was really nice. Good on him. Trying to find something unique and unifying to say at a Superbowl is very tough.

It's the big game. We need Chaotic Neutral Bunny.

Glad they’ve got Green Day here to keep older audience members engaged.